Great Quotes II: Source and Context are Key

[madviking]

The key environmental innovations of the 18th century were, according to historian Joachim Radkau, "the potato and cloitus interruptus."

 

[MajKira]

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure

- George Washington, 1st U.S. President

 

[Carl Sagan]

"Reality has a well known liberal bias." - Stephen Colbert
"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." -Carl Sagan

 

[W|M]

''Even though large tracts of the Internet and many old and famous Sites have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Pony Hordes and all the odious apparatus of Brony rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in the forums, we shall fight on the IOTs and RPs, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the OPs, we shall defend our Internet, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the SGs, we shall fight on the All Other Games, we shall fight in the Stories & Tales and in the mods, we shall fight in Steam; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Internet or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Forums beyond the CFC, armed and guarded by the Darkest Hour Players, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the Paradox Forum, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.''

-RedSpy

 

[cardgame]

Oh you're silly. The internet has already been won.

 

[Flying Pig]

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure

- George Washington, 1st U.S. President

Oh, the naivity!

 

[Traitorfish]

"Money is terrible. It's just a depressing way of boiling our wonderful world down to a set of grey, eyeless, dickless little numbers, and then using them to screw each other over. 'Ooh, one for me and one for you. Ooh, you've got one more than me, I'm gonna stab you in the ribs.' That's what money is."

-Charlie Brooker

 

[madviking]

The German historian Joachim Radkau [wrote that] the key environmental innovations of the eighteenth century [...] were "the potato and coitus interruptus."

Probably my favorite quote from 1493.

 

[_random_]

The key environmental innovations of the 18th century were, according to historian Joachim Radkau, "the potato and cloitus interruptus."

Probably my favorite quote from 1493.

You really, really like that quote, huh?

 

[madviking]

Yes very yes.

 

[Traitorfish]

“The best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient and rebellious. They are quite right to be so”.

- Oscar Wilde

 

[NedimNapoleon]

'Fuhrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!' Benito Mussolini (to Adolf Hitler), 28th October 1940 I laughed my ass off.

 

[NickyJ]

Since I have been reading Keitel's memoirs, I can definitely find that funny. Especially since it was a complete disaster until the Germans intervened, and even then, it was still miserable.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

"You will not recognize Berlin in 12 years" Adolf Hitler 1933

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

"You will not recognize Berlin in 12 years" Adolf Hitler 1933

He was right, you know.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Gunfire and explosions tend to have that effect.

Anyway,
"t is now apparently part of the normal doctrine of those who advocate this system that no distinction can be made between combatants and non-combatants, and that a perfectly legitimate and indeed necessary method of warfare will be the wholesale destruction of unfortified cities and their inhabitants. No doubt there will be countervailing efforts to prevent such things happening; but there is, at any rate, one section of military thought which believes that the only way to stop the bombardment of the cities belonging to one belligerent will be the bombardment of the cities belonging to the other. "
-Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, The Future of Civilization (1938)

 

[NickyJ]

"Give a man a fish, and you have fed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will continue fishing even if you give him a fish." - Some guy on a website I saw.

 

[cardgame]

"A girl called me a douchebag today. I was so stunned, my sunglasses fell off the back of my head. Luckily they fell into my popped collar." - LovePanda

 

[Dachs]

Since I have been reading Keitel's memoirs, I can definitely find that funny. Especially since it was a complete disaster until the Germans intervened, and even then, it was still miserable.

Actually, the Italians had launched a counteroffensive by the time the Germans were ready to attack the other end of the Metaxas Line, and had pushed the Greeks back into northern Epeiros. Still fairly embarrassing, but not that embarrassing.

What's most bemusing is that the Italians completely ignored their overwhelming naval superiority and didn't mount an amphibious landing somewhere on the Greek coast. They probably could've sailed into Peiraeios if they wanted to.

 

[Borachio]

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

(Lady Macbeth having killed herself, Macbeth ponders on the utter futility of existence.)